ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,928, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Two-stage cache partitioning" was invented by Philip Abraham (Beaverton, Ore.), Stephen Van Doren (Portland, Ore.), Ritu Gupta (Cuppertino, Calif.) and Andrew Herdrich (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms to facilitate access to a cache based on a dual basis partition scheme. In an embodiment, a first one or more registers of a processor provide information which describes multiple set-wise partitions of a cache. A second one or more registers of the processor provides additional information which describes multiple way-wise...